BS: The Mother of all BS threads

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Nov 08 - 05:20 PM

No, Khandu.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 14 Nov 08 - 09:28 AM

From the Impressive and Unlikely Website of Arunachal Epitome dot Com, insights into the meandering mischief of Khandu:

"Bomdila, Oct 01: Chief Minister Mr. Khandu after taking stock of flood damaged areas of Bomdila, the District Hq of West Kameng district said, "We need to comeup with proper planning on the preventive measures for meeting lesser damages during natural calamities". It may be mentioned here that the torrential rain on June 26 last had caused a massive destruction, which left whole of the West Kameng district and Tawang cut -off from rest of the world almost a fortnight.

Addressing a mammoth gathering at officer club here, the Chief Minister said, "We cannot blame totally to the nature for its fury, it is the people who teases the nature without caring about the consequences".He showed concern and sympathy for the loss of property and livestock during the flood meted by the people. Mr. Khandu, however, assured to provide relief and urged the DC and local M.L.A's of the district to identify the victims according to the magnitude of their losses. He further urged them to expedite the restoration work of the sinked roads and directed the engineers to conduct survey for alternate routes if restoration was not possible. The C.M. opined that improper drainage system was the major factor behind the massive destruction. He further encouraged the gathering to indulge in plantation works around their house , which he thought to a certain extent would minimize the chance of landslide during monsoon season.

Mr. Khandu highlighted the mega package amounting to over Rs. 20,000 Crore under Prime Minister's package to the state and he appealed the mass to be a partner towards the state's development. "Once this massive infrastructural development package announced by the Prime Minister is successfully implemented, it will herald a new era in the frontier state of Arunachal Pradesh," asserted Mr. Khandu. "

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I, for one, would not want to be around when these hard-used people discover the speaker to whom they devoted so much column-space is actually an itinerant blues player from Mississippi.



A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Nov 08 - 08:42 AM

Blood...blood...the blood is the life...blood...it's been so LOOOONG...blood...I must have it....

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Nov 08 - 01:05 AM

It's a good thing Chongo isn't like that. None of us would be safe.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 14 Nov 08 - 12:06 AM

YEah, it's overkill, but Spaw has gone amok and has tasted human blood. ANd you know what that does to him.


A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Nov 08 - 12:05 AM

Yeah, that's about what I think about it too.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 13 Nov 08 - 11:57 PM

A prusik knot might be a good way to climb out of the morass that is that other thread. I've used them to climb out of crevasses.

That WAV thread looks like overkill--verbally dueling with an unarmed man does seem to be taking unfair advantage.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 13 Nov 08 - 07:53 PM

No, that's the rabbit test your college girlfriend told you about.


A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Nov 08 - 06:39 PM

Isn't that scansion thing what you do to a rope you're tying a bowline in after you pass the running end through the bight? Or am I thinking of a Prussik Knot?

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Little Hawk
Date: 13 Nov 08 - 06:38 PM

I too am attempting to turn them in just such a direction, Amos, but they are mostly so caught up in "catching and burning the witch" right now that it's very hard to get them to be creative.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 13 Nov 08 - 06:35 PM

Well, I've already seeded the WAV thread with very high quality models of scansion, rhythm, rhyme, structure and deep reflection, but they seem to have fallen on rather infertile ground. At least here people TRY to emulate these virtues!



A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Little Hawk
Date: 13 Nov 08 - 05:31 PM

Good guess, Stilly. All that is required for a thread like this to eventually spawn itself is for a few loquacious people with too much time on their hands to develop the habit of dropping in every day to see what is happening and contributing their various bits of idle verbiage to the ever-growing list of posts.

At first they find it merely amusing or diverting.

Presently it becomes a regular habit which they can barely do without.

Then it becomes a sort of unholy addiction...a retreat from the hurly-burly of real life into an evermore exclusive gathering of similarly-minded souls who derive comfort from the little club they have unintentionally formed.

Soon they feel a real sense of ownership over the proceedings in their thread, and they regard new or occasional visitors with suspicion, indulgent tolerance, or lofty disdain...depending on what sort of mood they're in that day.

Then it becomes a holy crusade to maintain the thread on a daily basis, enlarge it, expound upon its unique and special value, and defend its continued existence against any possible threats.

In short: intellectual incest!

I put it to you that the Walkabouts thread is beginning to show strong signs of becoming just such a thread, while the MOABS is the ultimate example of the type. ;-D

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 13 Nov 08 - 03:39 PM

Quality is everything. Is LH referring to the poetical buffoon on the "walkabout" thread? There is simply no comparison.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Little Hawk
Date: 13 Nov 08 - 02:49 PM

No doubt.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Nov 08 - 02:29 PM

You'd be as shocked as I was if you did.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Little Hawk
Date: 13 Nov 08 - 01:49 PM

Oh, well that's different. To tilt against those would be the height of folly.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Nov 08 - 01:38 PM

We make windmills here in Pocatello. Not like the Dutch ones, but the ones that make lectricity.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: MMario
Date: 13 Nov 08 - 01:18 PM

26200!

Windmills are the wave of the future.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Little Hawk
Date: 13 Nov 08 - 01:00 PM

Works for me. ;-) Windmills are so, like, "last week", know what I mean?

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 13 Nov 08 - 12:54 PM

YEah, except you tilt at imaginary primates instead of windmills.


A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Little Hawk
Date: 13 Nov 08 - 12:51 PM

LOL! So that is how you see me, is it? Sort of a latter day Don Quixote?

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 13 Nov 08 - 12:49 PM

MWahahaha. Little Hawk is projecting again. The only pretender in the lists for Sesquipedalian Blathertwaddle is he, himself; he is doomed to stare into the middle distance, brave of mien, for all eternity, ready for a foe who will never bother to appear....


A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Nov 08 - 12:39 PM

You threatenin' MOM?? Huh? Are you? Either take that back or else!

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Little Hawk
Date: 13 Nov 08 - 12:21 PM

Be warned, people. Your supposed monopoly on interminable sesquipedalian blathertwaddle here on this thread is being menaced by an up and coming pretender to the throne.

Shall I tell you which thread that is?

No. I think I'll just let you figure it out for yourselves. ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 13 Nov 08 - 11:51 AM

He claims to seek a hero, who in truth
Would only bring a hero, found, sad ruth
For how's a hero, clean in mind and bod,
Supposed to treat with some narcissist clod
Who flaunts machinery against velleity
And loudly claims to be, himself, a Deity?
Were I a hero (and I am not, much)
I'd make a point of steering clear of such,
For fear my image, cast upon such glass,
Would shatter both, and make of both an ass.

William Valet Weights
Mad Visions of the Overblown
Putney, Inmoouth, Anbyte, pubs.
Dublin City, 1917

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Nov 08 - 11:28 AM

26192.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Nov 08 - 11:27 AM

...Gasping on deck, because you soar too high, Bob,
And fall, for lack of moisture, quite a-dry, Bob!

... Scott, Rogers, Campbell, Moore, and Crabbe will try
'Gainst you the question with posterity.

...To keep one creed's a task grown quite Herculean;
Is it not so, my Tory, ultra-Julian?

More Byron, perhaps, Amos?

I want a hero: an uncommon want,
    When every year and month sends forth a new one,
Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant,
    The age discovers he is not the true one;
Of such as these I should not care to vaunt,
    I'll therefore take our ancient friend Don Juan --
We all have seen him, in the pantomime,
Sent to the devil somewhat ere his time.

Note the rhymes in the excerpts: "Herculean/ultra-Julian", "too high, Bob/quite a-dry Bob" and others. And even in the first stanze of the first Canto: "new one/true one/Don Juan." Brilliant! Byron tells us in rhyme how his hero's name is to be pronounced!

If it's good enough for Georgie Gordon then By Damn! Sir! it's good enough for me.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 13 Nov 08 - 09:48 AM

Well, your plagiarism may be improving, I think, but I really wish you would debosist from stiboicking extra syllabobables into your conbostructions. It really seems to mess up the scanbosion somebohow.A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Nov 08 - 05:55 PM

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious wiki of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping on my monitor.
`'Tis some error code,' I muttered, `tapping on my monitor -
Only this, and nothing more.'

Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,
And each separate dying ember burnt a hole right through the floor.
Eagerly I wished the morrow; - vainly I had sought to borrow
From my wiki surcease of sorrow - sorrow for a lost music score -
For the rare and radiant notes whom the folkies named no more -
Nameless here for evermore.

And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each googled curtain
Thrilled me - filled me with expectations never felt before;
So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating
`'Tis only some music entreating entrance at my monitor -'
But it was some Mudcat seeking entrance through my monitor; -
And I would ne'er again experience silence, peace, and nothing more.

               --H. Herkimer Schenectady, Plagaristic Poems
               (Fonda, New York: Po' Press, 1763)

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 12 Nov 08 - 05:44 PM

A "magazine?" Isn't that some part of a firearm that has bullets or other ammunition? The library where I work has us all out of the habit of talking about "magazines." They talk about serials and journals.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Nov 08 - 05:22 PM

Mom! I'm gonna have my picture in a magazine and Amos isn't! Ha ha ha, Amos!

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 12 Nov 08 - 12:08 PM

MOOOOOM!!! Amos keeps outshining Rapaire with his brilliant doggerel. Make him STOOOOOP!!!!!!!!


Amos

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 12 Nov 08 - 10:58 AM

Be thou ravin'
Nevermore
Ravin' at the Mudcats door!
For the love of lost Lenore,
Or an unpaid fine or four.
Ravin' o'er some sloppy fellow
From the North, from Pocatello,
Who, to be two bits a-savin',
Tipped accounts at Bookman's haven,
And began the Bookman's ravin'
On that distant frozen shore.
Little gains from misbehavin'
Oh, thou literary maven!
Do be still, and cease thy ravin'
Be thou ravin'
Nevermore.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Nov 08 - 09:20 AM

I was just ravin'.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 11 Nov 08 - 09:56 PM

MOM!!!!! The kids are squabbling again!!!!




A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 Nov 08 - 09:48 PM

Pretty snarky, Mike. . .

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 11 Nov 08 - 09:47 PM

Your ditty will not win a trophy,
Forecasting a catass-trophe.
You reveal, in sublimation
Cruelty of imagination,
Sneering visage, malign air,
Thus your depths are all laid bare.
And your life reveals its Ruler:
Your own inner Psycho-Drooler!
Oh, begone, thou wicked fellow,
Stay in freezing Pocatello!
Sunlit climes and gentle breezes
Come to those who act like Jesus.


A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Nov 08 - 08:17 PM

Once upon a finest city
While I pounded out a ditty
Suddenly there came a sloshing,
A growling, quaking, sliding, sloshing,
Burning through my chamber door.
Only this, and nothing more.

          --Lucius K. Mosby, Short Ditties For Finest Cities
             (Ceres City: By Jupiter! Press, 2309)

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 11 Nov 08 - 06:45 PM

Sorry, kids, the label is already registered with the USPTO and it belongs to San Diego.

Let the girls of Pocatello,
And their self-inflating fellows
To their darkling homes away go,
Give me sunny San Diego.

None who hopes respect to see
Lingers in cold Schenectady,
Home of idle, vicious talk
Fit for such as Little Hawk.

And of chill Pocatello, there,
Let us leave poor cold Rapaire
Ranting with bookish velleity
Of his Wanna-Being Deity.

Let us lean back, sitting pretty
In America's FInest City,
Where the sun is not in fetters,
We do not wear boots and sweaters,

Let the other guys go starkers
With galoshes and with parkas
While we our carefree sunny way go,
Here in grace-lit San Diego.

You who practice stark delusion,
Bookish pride, nuclear fusion,
Where the bear and white fox yell
By the wicked lab Batelle

Or in rampant, mad up-stuckery
Carry out obsessed Canuckery
Leave me, where the deep blue waters
Sibilant with surfing's daughters,

Lies benignly in the sun,
Warmed and lit, like hot cross bun.
Keep your slush and driveways gritty,
I'll stay in our Finest City.


Rockin Dude AUstin MEllencamp, Jr.
Wave Dude Publications
Surf City, U.S.A. , 1980

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Nov 08 - 06:13 PM

They must be in Stone, Idaho!

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Little Hawk
Date: 11 Nov 08 - 05:22 PM

" I stopped by to welcome them to America's Finest City "

Are you visiting Schenectady?

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 Nov 08 - 03:07 PM

MOM did comment the other day that the rhetoric is a little heated in here, and that the room smells like a big fart.

Or something like that. . .

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 11 Nov 08 - 01:09 PM

I love to sit around and talk
WIth Stilly, Rap and Little Hawk.
I love to watch the charming posts
Of MOAB's children, and the ghosts
Of those who once, with language airy,
posted here more regularly.
I think, for sure, of ancient Tweed,
A giant heart in words, indeed,
And Rustic Rebel, and Khandu
And others who have once passed through.
With humor, joy, and even gaity
That exceeds most, amongst the laity.
But all this falls like clay to dust,
When Rapaire starts asserting Deity.

Winifred Spunephedd III
Doggerel of Happier Dogs
Lazy Days Publications,
Raizedd-on-Pablum, Kent

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 11 Nov 08 - 10:45 AM

Yes, indeed. They seemd to all be gravitating toward the COnvention Center downtown. It was, it turns out, the centennial Eldritch Hundredyear Gather and Celebration or some such. I stopped by to welcome them to America's Finest City but they kept interrupting me to ask which was the fastest route to Pocatello. Seems they had some kind of score to settle with someone. I told them to look you up when they were in the area, and they said no worries, they already had the MapQuest printouts ready.


A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Nov 08 - 10:16 AM

Is the sea around San Diego stirring with eldritch Nameless Beings, Amos? Have various individuals with frog-like eyes been seen near your home?

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 11 Nov 08 - 09:22 AM

I'll consider it, when you can persuade yon Rap-air to stop twisting things. See how he inverted what I said in order to make himself look darkly overbearing? It's unmannerly, and unmanly. It stinks up the air of Mom's place with the flatus of overweening self-esteem. It suffocates the spark of open creativity and raises black iconic images tot he detriment of every soul who sees them. I'm all like, hoooo-hum.

What a golden-haired lad is our Rapaire. Sad, that his soul needs such repair.



A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Little Hawk
Date: 11 Nov 08 - 09:10 AM

Stop attempting to cover up your egregious errors with lofty sounding blathertwaddle, Amos. It's not befitting of a deity to behave in that fashion.

Now, write on the blackboard 5000 times:

I will always pronounce Rapaire as Rap-a-ree
I will always pronounce Rapaire as Rap-a-ree
I will always pronounce Rapaire as Rap-a-ree

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Nov 08 - 07:16 AM

Oh yes. You will indeed be converted.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 10 Nov 08 - 10:34 PM

I will tickle his palate with the smallest iota of my powers, until he rolls on the floor in a fit of giggles.

I shall return him to you a Convert.


A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Nov 08 - 09:13 PM

That is true, Amos. And because you have taken My attributes upon yourself I am sending My minion, Cthulu, to dine at your place.